Chris Peopleshttps://chrispeoples.com/Recent content on Chris PeoplesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 20 May 2020 16:12:07 -0700Hosting Trivia Night Using Kahoot and Zoomhttps://chrispeoples.com/post/hosting-trivia-night-using-kahoot-zoom/Wed, 20 May 2020 16:12:07 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/hosting-trivia-night-using-kahoot-zoom/One way that I&rsquo;ve been able to stay connected with family during the quarantine is by hosting a semi-regular trivia night. It&rsquo;s been a lot of fun so I thought I&rsquo;d share my setup.
Kahoot To facilitate the trivia part of trivia night, I use Kahoot. Kahoot is a platform for hosting games with questions.What I've Been Reading During the Pandemichttps://chrispeoples.com/post/what-ive-been-reading-during-the-pandemic/Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/what-ive-been-reading-during-the-pandemic/Reading is one of my favorite pastimes, and the pandemic hasn&rsquo;t stopped my appetite for books. I have, however, steered clear of anything dystopian or post-apocalyptic, because who wants to read about that at a time like this! Instead, I&rsquo;ve taken in the rare historical fiction novel along with the usual sci-fi and mystery/thriller books.Continuous Deployment Via FTP For Hugo Using GitHub Actionshttps://chrispeoples.com/post/continuous-deployment-hugo-ftp-github-actions/Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:15:07 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/continuous-deployment-hugo-ftp-github-actions/After I migrated my website to Hugo, I needed a way to deploy the site to my host without manually FTPing files every time I make change. Netlify has support for static site hosting and continuous deployment, but I wasn&rsquo;t looking to switch hosts. Previously I used AppVeyor to deploy, but this time I decided to use GitHub Actions to automate building and deploying the site whenever I push changes to master.Migrating to Hugohttps://chrispeoples.com/post/migrating-to-hugo/Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:12:25 -0700https://chrispeoples.com/post/migrating-to-hugo/I started using a static site generator for my personal site back in 2018. I was looking for a more lightweight platform than Wordpress, and SSG&rsquo;s were a great alternative. Especially since they fit great into CI/CD workflows. I selected Wyam because it&rsquo;s written in C# and used Razor for it&rsquo;s templating syntax, which made my transition easier since I&rsquo;m already familiar with both of those.Black History Monthhttps://chrispeoples.com/post/black-history-month/Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/black-history-month/I decided to celebrate this Black History Month by reading only black authors. I even managed to mix in some non-fiction, a rarity for me. I thought it&rsquo;d be fun to share my reading list along with my highlighted passages.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor Binti by Nnedi Okorafor The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.#RIPMambahttps://chrispeoples.com/post/ripmamba/Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/ripmamba/Kobe Bean Bryant. August 23, 1978 - January 26, 2020. My mind has been all over the place since Kobe&rsquo;s tragic death. I&rsquo;ve been thinking about mortality, fatherhood, legacy, basketball, grief, depression, happiness, forgiveness, appreciation, family, friendship&hellip;as I said, all over the place.
As I&rsquo;ve been reading and listening to people speak about Kobe&rsquo;s career, I found my thought&rsquo;s in an interesting place: The Wise Man&rsquo;s Fear.2019 Music Year in Reviewhttps://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-music-review/Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-music-review/Music was a bit of a mixed bag for me in 2019. I listened to less music than usual because my commute was reduced drastically, so I had less time to check out new music and rediscover old favorites. However, music brought me one of proudest moments of the year when my daughter randomly said to me, &ldquo;I need to listen to more Rapsody.2019 Reading Year in Reviewhttps://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-reading-review/Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2019-reading-review/2019 was quite a year of reading for me. I easily completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge by reading 34 books, which beat my previous record of 33 books in 2018.
The Books All the books I read in 2019, in order of date read:
Nomad, Matthew Mather Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Batman: Nightwalker, Marie Lu Sanctuary, Matthew Mather The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead Way Station, Clifford D.A Few of My Favorite Things of the 2010shttps://chrispeoples.com/post/2010s-favorites/Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2010s-favorites/As the decade draws to a close, I thought I&rsquo;d make a list of some of my favorite books, albums, and movies released or published in the 2010s. For when the dog bites. And the bee stings. In no particular order:
Books Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates The Sellout, Paul Beatty The Storied Life of A.Unpopular Positive Opinion Challengehttps://chrispeoples.com/post/unpopular-positive-opinion-challenge/Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/unpopular-positive-opinion-challenge/From xkcd.com:
Challenge accepted, Randall!
I use Trakt to keep track and rate all of the movies I watch. Fortunately, Trakt provides an API so that I can programmatically retrieve all of my ratings. The OMDb API includes Rotten Tomatoes ratings, so I was able write a small C# console application to compare my ratings of 8 or greater to Rotten Tomatoes.Summer Reading 2019https://chrispeoples.com/post/summer-reading-2019/Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/summer-reading-2019/Barack Obama shared his summer reading list (see below), and he&rsquo;s inspired me to share mine. Here are the books I&rsquo;ve read so far this summer:
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor The Last Firewall, William Hertling Zeus is Undead: This One Has Zombies, Michael G. Munz Superman: Dawnbreaker, Matt de la Pena The Sellout, Paul Beatty The Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang View this post on Instagram It&#39;s August, so I wanted to let you know about a few books I&#39;ve been reading this summer, in case you&#39;re looking for some suggestions.2018 Reading Challengehttps://chrispeoples.com/post/2018-reading-challenge/Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/2018-reading-challenge/Once again I completed Goodreads Reading Challenge. My goal for 2018 was 15 books, and I read 33! A total of 11,211 pages. I&rsquo;ve done the challenge for the last five years and have completed my goal each year. I think it&rsquo;s time I raise the bar for 2019!
Books I read in 2018 American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, Craig Ferguson Origin, Dan Brown The Book Thief, Markus Zusak Molly&rsquo;s Game, Molly Bloom American Assassin, Vince Flynn Flygirl, Sherri L.Welcomehttps://chrispeoples.com/post/welcome/Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/post/welcome/Writing doesn&rsquo;t come easy for me, but in process of redoing my site, it seems that I&rsquo;ve committed to blogging. I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;ll write about, but I probably won&rsquo;t stick to one topic. Let&rsquo;s see how this goes!Abouthttps://chrispeoples.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/about/I&rsquo;m Chris Peoples, but hopefully you knew that already. I like to build web-based tools and applications that help make peoples lives easier. My primary weapons are .NET, C#, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Take a gander at my scant few public projects.
When I&rsquo;m not working, I&rsquo;m a parent, podcaster, poker player, and alliteration afficianado.Archiveshttps://chrispeoples.com/archives/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/archives/Nowhttps://chrispeoples.com/now/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/now/I&rsquo;ve been inspired by Derek Sivers and the /now page movement to share what&rsquo;s currently going in my life:
I&rsquo;m looking for ways to be more active on this website. Hopefully you&rsquo;ll be seeing more content here in 2020. I&rsquo;m fully engaged in a project for work that has been one of the most rewarding in my career.Projectshttps://chrispeoples.com/projects/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://chrispeoples.com/projects/Lawler&rsquo;s Law Tracker Website I love useless statistics, and Lawler&rsquo;s Law is one of the best. If you ever wanted to know how often an NBA team wins a game when it scores 100 before its opponent, now you can!
Father Daughter Book Club Website A podcast about books with my daughter.